AS you open newspapers you read that East Pakistanis are fleeing their country, taking shelter in refugee camps and dying in thousands from cholera. But why? What is the genesis of this holocaust? Who is responsible for this human misery?

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan challenges the death penalty awarded to him by a war crimes tribunal for his crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971

OUR nationalist movement that led to the War of Liberation began soon after the creation of Pakistan. Since inception, the Pakistani rulers began maligning our culture to destroy our independent cultural identity.

WHICH memories of 1971 are horrific? The whole period from March 25 to December 15 was one continuous hell.

IN the absence of a political solution the crisis thrown up by the events in East Pakistan can only get worse.

Here we publish Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Sydney H. Schanberg's famous article titled "Pakistan Divided".

This is my third visit to the India-Pakistan border 60 miles east of Calcutta. The countryside has not changed.

EXACTLY 214 years after Bangla's sun of independence set in the mango grove of Polashi in Behrampur on June 23, 1757, the resting sun rose once more to glory in an unknown village in Meherpur, Kushtia through the announcement of independence of then East Pakistan by the Awami League.

AUGUST 15, 1971. On that day, after midnight, then East Pakistan's sea and river ports were attacked with mines one after the other. Occupation forces, shaken, sent out SOS signals to the whole world.

THE speech by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib given at the Race Course (now Suhrawardy Uddyan) forty-four years ago on March 7...

WHEN December and March come, I get calls from newspapers asking me to write about our Liberation War.

Chroniclers will record December 17, 1971[ December 16, 1971], as the day of the dismemberment of Pakistan. Historians will say that the destruction of the country, as conceived and constituted by its founding fathers, began on the night of March 25. From that moment, the movement toward disaster was inexorable, for the men who held our destiny were oblivious to reason of politics, diplomacy, morality, and military strategy.

As West Pakistanis, we are shocked and shamed by the recent developments in our country. We decry the denial by West Pakistani leaders of East Pakistan's right to self-determination. We condemn the current policy of brutally suppressing the home-rule movement in Bengal.

Condemned war criminal Kamaruzzaman will file review petition with Supreme Court tomorrow against its verdict that upheld his death penalty

Here is Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's interview with Ramesh Chandra, Secretary-General, World Peace Council, published on August 30, 1971.

I would wish these pages were not only an anthology of eye-witness accounts. People of my generation have experienced enough horror to be, alas! no longer shocked. And human nature is such that it is rare that horror does not breed horror.

Law enforcers pick up two war crimes suspects in Jamalpur three hours after the International Crimes Tribunal-2 this afternoon issued arrest warrants against eight.

Shahzaman Mozumder Bir Protik goes back to the heroic days of our 1971 Liberation War and tells the story of the battle of Ashuganj and the Muktibahini's march towards Dhaka.

Few of them returned home. Many of their bodies could not even be traced. Most of the corpses that were found at different killing sites in Dhaka were mutilated beyond recognition. They were among the brightest sons and daughters of the soil -- all pro-liberation people including professors, journalists, litterateurs and doctors.